Device for ironing neckties



0d 15., 1935. A. sToFFEL, NEE voN DER HDEN 2,017,478

DEVICE FOR IRONING NECKTIES y I Filed nec. 19, 1934 n m/egf.- I F l g, 3, n ma da New o@ 1s. les' y z,o11,47s

UNITED STATES PATENT oI-Flca y 2.01am nevica Fon momo Nncx'rms Anna Stoffel, ne von der Bden, Dusseldpri, Germany Application December 19, 1934, semi No. 153,335

- Germany April 15, 1932 1 claim. (el. ssa-.2m

This invention relates to devices for smoothing device provision will b e made for a liquid-tight. and removing creases from open-ended neckties closure to the hollow body-portion a. Mounted and has for its main object to provide a device on the hollow body portion a is a handle b which whereby a necktie can be ironed from the inside may have a foot adapted to be inserted in a chan.-

5 by relative movement between ironing device and nel formed on the body portion a (Figs. 1 to 3) or 5 tie. Y may be carried by a plate secured to the body Another object of the invention is to provide a portion a by means'of screws (Fig. 4). lThe hantie-ironing device adapted tobe heated internally dle is preferably reversible on its mounting as by inserting an electric heating unit or by introindicated in Fig. 1 so as to enable it to be posil ducing a heated solid body or liquid so that the tioned extending parallel to the hollow body por- 10 device can be utilized in practically all circumtion a towards either end as desired so as to modistances without limitation to the availability of fy the distribution oi.' the ironing pressure. As electricity for instance. seen from Figs. l, 2, and 4 the point of mounting Another object of the invention is to provide the handle b is spaced away from the broad end Vl5 in such a tie-ironing device. a handle removably of the body portion a towards the narrow end. 15

mounted at a point spaced from one end towards To enable the ironing motion to be performed the other land adapted to be positioned to extend within the tie both in the longitudinal and transtowards-either end to enable the ironing pressure verse directions, the body portion a has smoothly to be modied. rounded edges c as shown in Fig. 3 as well as These and other features of the invention will rounded ends. Also to facilitate the introduc- 20 now be more fully described with reference to the tion oi the ironing device into the tie the narrow drawing: y end of the device may be made somewhat less f Fig. 1 shows a side view of a preferred embodithan the thickness d adjacent the wide end. ment It will be apparent that the embodiment de- Fig. 2 shows a plan view of the device of Fig. l scribed and shown is only illustrative and not ex- 25 inserted in 'a tie. haustive of the invention, which includes all modi- Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken along the fications and variations falling within the amblt line 3-3 of Fig. 2 but with the handle removed. of the appended claim.

Fig. 4 shows a plan view of a modified form in- What I claim is corporating an electric heating unit. An iron for ironing open-ended neckties, com- 30 The body portion a of the tie-ironing device. prising a thin body tapering both in width-and which is hollow and adapted to accommodate 'thickness from one end to the other, all of the suitable heating means, is of a configuration simiedgesof said body being rounded so that the iron lar to but of dimensions smaller than the end of Vmay be freely manipulated within a necktie, a

the tie (Fig. 2). The heating means may take handle extending longitudinally of the iron. and 35 the form of an electric heating unit as indicated ay single supporting member adjacent the wider in Fig. 4 or a heated solid body or a heated liquid, and thicker end of the iron for securing the hane. g., boiling water, which may be introduced into dle to the iron. the hollow body-portion a, Fiss. 1 and 2. When 4o a heated liquid is used for heating the tie-ironing ANNA STOFFEL, Nix von n HDm. 40 

